13 July 2013

THIS. IS. AWESOME.

Writing under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith, the Harry Potter creator ghost-wrote a 450-page crime novel called The Cuckoo’s Calling.

The book is billed as a “classic crime novel”, written in the style of P. D. James and Ruth Rendell.

Its plot centres of the death of a troubled model who falls to her death from a snow-covered Mayfair balcony. Her brother calls in Cormoran Strike, a damaged war veteran turned turned private investigate, to her death.

My library has 3 copies of this and 201 holds (presumably most came after the news was out).
They have 99 copies of The Casual Vacancy, and 5 holds. I'm thinking they overbought that one, though of course when it first came out, there were an awful lot of holds.